Legislation Tracker

September 13, 2017

The Joint Committee on Health Care Finance held a hearing to hear testimony on MANA's bill, H2452/S658. Massachusetts Society of Anesthesiologists testified against the bill, MANA testified in support of the bill.

July 25, 2017

The Joint Committee on Health Care Finance held a hearing to hear testimony on only the bill filed by Governor Baker, H.3829. Massachusetts Society of Anesthesiologists testified against the bill, MANA testified in support of the bill only if the supervision rules are updated to match the language in our bills.

July 19, 2017

Governor Charlie Baker filed legislation, H.3829 An Act Promoting Affordable Health Care Options Summary: This bill contains some language that is helpful for CRNA's but still includes some supervision rules that are not consistent with the language in our bills (H.2452, S.658). MANA will support this bill if supervision is removed or updated to match the language in our bills.

Legislative Session

1/1/17-7/31/18

1)New name! We have shortened the bill title to, "An Act to Remove the Restrictions on the licenses of CRNAs".

2)New Co-Sponsor: Representative Paul Donato (D-Medford) has joined Representative Kay Khan (D-Newton) and Senator Marc Pacheco (D-Taunton) as one of the lead sponsors of the bill.

The bill has been filed, numbered and referred to the first joint committee. The house version (H2452) was referred to the Joint Committee on Public Health and was discharged and referred to Joint Committee on Health Care Financing. The senate version (S658) has been referred to the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing.